Kiwi 2 Wifi is a plug and play automotive tool that connects to the onboard diagnostic port (OBDII / CAN). This tool communicates and retrieves information from your car's computer and wirelessly transmits to any iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. It is compatible with 1996 and later vehicles and installs in seconds. The Kiwi 2 Wifi can efficiently monitor a vehicle's MPG, data log engine parameters, read/reset engine trouble codes and monitor real time engine performance. Simply connect your device to the Kiwi 2 Wifi through a wifi connection, and launch the compatible app of your choice to obtain vital information about your vehicle.

The Kiwi 2 Wifi includes several improvements over the first generation award winning Kiwi 1 Wifi. It now comes with a sleek new design and is 0.25 inches thinner. The cable length has been reduced from 6 feet to 3 feet, making for a cleaner permanent installation. It incorporates an elm327 compatible interface and it works with ISO9141, VPW, PWM, and CAN protocols.

The Kiwi 2 Wifi incorporates a new advanced power saving circuit, designed to shut off power to essential functions of the unit allowing the Kiwi 2 Wifi to be permanently installed in your vehicle without draining your vehicle's battery. After 5 minutes of inactivity, the Kiwi 2 Wifi automatically enters a low power sleep mode. To turn the unit back on, a simple press of the soft switch wakes the device back up.

The Kiwi 2 Wifi includes an 8 pin port on the back designed to be mated with the PLX iMFD Adapter. This allows you to connect high performance aftermarket sensors such as wideband air/fuel ratio, exhaust gas temperature, vacuum/boost, air intake temperature, fluid pressure and fluid temperature and view on your iOS mobile device. This solution is desired for applications where vehicles do not support certain sensors and/or the car's computer does not report them. With the PLX iMFD Adapter attached, the best of both worlds of fully plug and play OBD2 / CAN data as well as high performance aftermarket sensors can be obtained.

Features:

Depending on the application, the following features may be available:

WANT GAUGES? This is the app for that. DashCommand is the ultimate OBD-II supplementary vehicle instrumentation application available for the iPhone and iPod touch. The built in dashboards can display a total of 27 gauges pulling data directly from your ride's engine control module. Also use DashCommand as scan tool to read and clear the trouble codes that caused the "check engine light" to turn on, a trip computer, or a race day companion.

Professional skidpad showing lateral and accel/braking Gs with min/max indicators

Race track visually maps out your location, acceleration and braking as you drive laps around the track allows you to visually analyze different race track laps to see how acceleration and braking changed from lap to lap thus helping you to improve your lap times on your next outing.

Inclinometer shows rolling angle and vehicle pitch for off-roading.

Full support for OBD-II diagnostics, find out why your check-engine light is on and clear diagnostic trouble codes (DTCs)

GPS Track: Using the iPhone's GPS, learn about your acceleration and braking on the road and on the circuit. Green and red colors represent moments of forward and braking acceleration. Perfect your cornering habits and master the track.

Save time and money! Check your emissions before going to the shop! Readiness monitors include 11 vehicle tests that your vehicle must have "ready" before it can pass emissions tests in most states. Rev will tell you which tests are supported for your vehicle, and whether or not they are ready. Some great info can be found here: https://www.wivip.com/monitor052108.pdf

ROADERS turns your iOS device into a complete tool to track routes, view diagnostics and get in touch with friends and people enthusiastic for cars. The app makes your track fun and it's a great motivator for reducing your gasoline consumption, CO2 emission and how efficient and economic your car is at all levels. You can share your routes and your car performance with friends or people who uses the same model car as you all over the world.

Use the app to track and share your route, based on a distance activity. The app keeps a full log of your tracking, including tracks, distance, duration, consume. You can see what routes your friends have been up to, and you can see your friends LIVE when they are tracking their routes!

Roaders.com.br offers advanced analyses of your vehicle and a wide range of other features.
By connecting with Facebook, you can invite your friends, share your routes on Timeline and make your experience even better.

ROADERS make your experience in the road much more complete!
Fun and social, share with your friends, discover new places, find new ways.
Go to the road. BE A ROADER!!!

Features

Performance Gauges:

USING GPS:

GPS Speed

Acceleration (and Breaking)

Distance and Time Tracking

Max Speed

USING OBD:

ALL GPS GAUGES

Corrected Vehicle Speed

Instant Horse Power

Instant Consumption

Instant CO2

Tracking:

Save your routes on website

Share your routes with friends

Follow your friends routes

Follow your own routes

Become your routes public

Friends:

See your friends activities on Timeline

Invite friends from Facebook

Invite friends by e-mail

See your friends routes stats

Diagnostics:

Check your car diagnostic trouble codes

Save your car diagnostics

Extra Features:

AUTOPAUSE: if you get traffic in your routing or make a quick stop, the app pauses tracking and starts it again automatically
(with function turned ON)

Live Route (See in real time what routes your friends are doing)

Add as many cars as you want

Check your different car performances on website, and OVERALL

Find the closest car dealer accordingly your car brand

DISCLAIMER: This application uses GPS in the background. Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life.

Harry's LapTimer is the advanced tool for car enthusiasts. It records all types of sensor data provided by your iPhone/iPod/iPad (or external sensors), combines them, and makes them available to optimize your drive. Over time, you will get insights on your car and in your driving.

LapTimer offers more than 300 predefined tracks worldwide. With its assistants, it is extremely easy to setup - just click your track and drive. It fully automates your lap timing using GPS, and presents the results to all kinds of media.

You are not limited to track driving only. For example, you may define your home and working locations as a 'track', collect statistics on different ways chosen, and analyze / optimize the time used every day.

Want to show your drive to your friends? LapTimer generates beautiful in-car video recordings with all kinds of data overlaid, ready to be presented - e.g. on YouTube. Even without video, recorded data can be analyzed using purpose designed views, making it easy to analyze and improve your driving performance. Using online racing, you can use LapTimer in competition. LapTimer offers a Hall of Fame, which allows for watching you and your friends on track - all in real time. Compare your sector times, braking / acceleration points, and learn from each other.

You can start with your plain iPhone in the beginning and add external GPS and OBD II sensors later, step by step, as you need them. LapTimer comes in three different versions. LapTimer Standard can be enhanced later by added in app purchase features, LapTimer Professional is the 'all-in-one with free lifetime updates' version dedicated to the iPhone and iPod. Finally, there is an iPad optimized version named LapTimer Trainer.
Please note that functionality depends on your device, the LapTimer version chosen, and sometimes even external sensors added (like OBD II). Check our home page for details.

There are quite expensive stand alone solutions for track days available. Be smart and own the leading edge tool simply by using your iPhone and LapTimer. Besides the professional area, there is no known solution that offers more functionality than LapTimer does - across the market. As our ambition is to offer the best tool, LapTimer is continuously enhanced.

Please visit https://www.gps-laptimer.de for detailed information on versions, FAQs / documentation, in-depth technology background information, online racing, and supported device configurations. Join our user community at https://www.gps-laptimer-forum.de to be involved in future development - all with first class support.

Have you ever wanted to own a muscle car but found it too expensive? Or maybe you would like to have that loud muscle car sound in your Eco friendly car? Now you can! Drag FX is the application for you. Drag Fx works in coordination with the Kiwi 2 Wifi dongle sending information to your Iphone Ipad or Ipod thus creating a muscle car engine sound. This sound will match the RPM in real time.

ScanXL™ is our professional line of diagnostic scan tools. Built on top of our advanced scan tool technology, ScanXL™ delivers the full range of generic diagnostics for any OBD-II compliant vehicle sold worldwide, along with providing manufacturer-enhanced diagnostics for many vehicle types. It gives you access not only to the powertrain systems, but also ABS, airbag, and other proprietary systems that would otherwise require expensive dealer tools to work with. It allows viewing, charting, logging and playback of diagnostic data in real time via the vehicle's OBD-II diagnostic data port. It also allows viewing of vehicle Diagnostic Trouble Codes (DTC's), Freeze Frame data, and other vehicle information.

ScanXL™ supports 1996* and newer vehicles whether it be US, Asian, or European.

Visit our user forum for discussion and information about ScanXL™, product features, and new releases.

*1996 is the year the OBD-II system was standardized for passenger vehicles sold in the United States. In Europe, this was standardized in 2001 for gasoline vehicles and 2004 for diesel passenger cars. Please verify that your vehicle is OBD compliant before purchasing.

J2534 Overview

Legislation has mandated that vehicle manufacturers meet J2534 standards for all emissions related systems on all new vehicles starting with model year 2004. This standard enables independent service repair operators to program or reprogram (reflash) emissions related ECUs on a wide variety of vehicle manufacturers with a single hardware interface. Our ScanXL™ Professional diagnostic software supports all J2534 compliant pass-thru OBD-II interfaces. If you plan to buy or already use a J2534 interface in your service or repair facility to update vehicle software calibrations, our ScanXL™ product will be the perfect addition to your tool set. With no additional hardware costs, ScanXL™ Professional will give you access to dealer-level diagnostic capabilities for thousands less!

Manufacturer Enhanced Diagnostics

If you are the owner of an independent service or repair facility then you know that good tools can mean the difference between being able to find and fix the problem, or having to send the customer elsewhere. With generic only OBD-II scan tools you often cannot service some vehicle systems like ABS, airbag, or other proprietary systems. Using our ScanXL™ diagnostic scan tool, you now have access to dealer-level diagnostic capabilities for not only the powertrain systems, but also ABS, airbag, and other proprietary systems that would otherwise require expensive dealer tools to work with*.

We currently support the following vehicle types:

Ford, Lincoln, Mercury

(1996-2009)

GM

(1996-2009)

Mazda

(1996-2009)

Chrysler, Dodge, Plymouth, Jeep, Eagle

Coming Soon!

Toyota, Lexus, Scion

Coming Soon!

*Requires purchase of an enhanced diagnostics add-on package.

ScanXL™ Features

Vehicle Manager

Using the ScanXL™ Vehicle Manager you can keep track of multiple vehicles and owners simultaneously.

All vehicle specific information is stored in the Vehicle Manager.

Automatically keeps track of VIN (if available) and date and time of last diagnostic session.

When adding new vehicles, supports easy vehicle lookup through the built-in vehicle database.

Virtual Dashboards

With our patent-pending DashXL™ technology you get high quality dashboards on any screen size.

Highly configurable realistic looking gauges.

Gauges can be moved, resized, and laid out to resemble your own dashboard.

Virtual dashboard layouts can be loaded and saved from pre-existing templates or your own custom creations.

Gauges can be configured to report the minimum, maximum, and average values of the parameter being monitored.

Highly configurable graphs allow simultaneous graphing of up to 8 parameters per graph.

Tables can be placed on virtual dashboards and customized to report any parameters you want.

Maps can be placed on virtual dashboards and customized to display a full 3D view of any desired parameters.

You can set up an unlimited number of gauges, graphs, tables, and maps on your virtual dashboard.

Drag Strip and Dyno

The drag strip displays a countdown and timing light and measures your launch and reaction time. At the end of your run, you get a timeslip with the stats from the run.

If you use aftermarket performance parts, the new digital dyno feature will let you test horsepower and torque to measure their impact on your vehicle's performance-- just try out the dyno and see if those parts were worth the money!

Supports both English and Metric units of measurement.

Data Logging

Currently supports over 220 generic OBD-II parameters, including O2 sensors.

You can record and playback log files in real time (1ms logging accuracy).

You can save and load your log files for offline analysis.

Playback speed can be adjusted to play faster or slower than real time.

There are no restrictions on how much data you can log, it is only limited by how fast your OBD-II interface cable can send the data and by how much memory you have in your computer.

English and Metric (SI) unit measurement systems supported.

Customizable log file data export to .CSV file for easy viewing in other programs like Excel.

Full support for data log file bookmarks - if you notice the engine misfiring or some other problem, using the log file bookmarks you can just reach over and press F6 to add a bookmark into the logged data that is being recorded. Then you can come back at any time and see exactly where the bookmark is and view the surrounding frames of data to analyze the problem.

Trouble Codes

Read stored and pending Diagnostic Trouble Codes.

Clear the Check Engine or Service Engine Soon indicator light.

Read and clear stored Freeze Frame data.

Supports thousands of vehicle trouble code definitions.

Test Results

Read the status of Continuously and Non-Continuously Monitored Tests.

Miscellaneous

Full support for printing and print preview.

All of the different views, including the virtual dashboards, support printing/print preview.

For those who possess a knowledge of the OBD-II protocol, ScanXL™ provides an OBD-II Terminal where you can send custom commands to the vehicle.

For the power users out there, ScanXL™ has built-in Javascripting support to do custom calculations on OBD-II parameters and data.

Configurable alerts system - the alerts system allows you to configure the software to monitor any parameter(s) you like. When the specified conditions are met, the software will automatically play a sound (to warn you if you are driving) or insert a bookmark for you into the logged data that is being recorded.

The Kiwi Car to Smartphone line of products has received these awards:

SEMA Best New Mobile Electronics Entertainment Award 2010

Numerous Global Media Choice Awards 2010-2011

Popular Mechanics Editors Choice Award

Sensor

Address

Units

Min

Max

Wideband O2

0

0 - Lambda

0.68

1.36

1 - Gasoline (14.7)

10

20

2 - Diesel (14.6)

9.93

19.86

3 - Methanol (6.4)

4.35

8.7

4 - Ethanol (9.0)

6.12

12.24

5 - LPG (15.5)

10.54

21.08

6 - CNG (17.2)

11.7

23.39

7 - E85 (9.76)

6.64

13.27

Exhaust Gas Temp

1

0 - Celsius

0

1023

1 - Fahrenheit

32

1873

Fluid Temp

2

0 - Celsius Water

0

150

1 - Fahrenheit Water

32

302

2 - Celsius Oil

0

150

3 - Fahrenheit Oil

32

302

Vacuum

3

0 - Vac in/Hg

29.93

0

1 - Vac mm/Hg

760

0

Boost

4

2 - Boost 0-30 PSI

0

30

3 - Boost 0-2 kg/cm2

0

2.07

4 - Boost 0-15 PSI

0

15

5 - Boost 0-1 kg/cm2

0

1.12

Air Intake Temp

5

0 - Celsius

0

150

1 - Fahrenheit

32

302

RPM

6

0 - 8k

0

8000

1 - 12k

0

12000

2 - 20k

0

20000

Speed

7

0 - MPH

0

160

1 - km/H

0

258

Throttle Position

8

0 - Percent

0

100

Engine Load

9

0 - Percent

0

100

Fluid Pressure

10

0 - PSI Fuel

0

120

1 - kg/cm2 Fuel

0

8.44

2 - Bar Fuel

0

8.27

3 - PSI Oil

0

120

4 - kg/cm2 Oil

0

8.44

5 - Bar Oil

0

8.27

Sensor

Address

Units

Min

Max

Timing

11

0 - Degree

-64

64

Manifold Absolute

12

0 - kPa

0

255

Pressure (MAP)

1 - inHg

0

75.3

Mass Air Flow (MAF)

13

0 - g/s

0

655.35

1 - lb/min

0

86.69

Short Term Fuel Trim

14

0 - Percent

-100

100

Long Term Fuel Trim

15

0 - Percent

-100

100

Narrowband O2

16

0 - Percent

0

100

1 - Volts

0

1.275

Fuel Level

17

0 - Percent

0

100

Volt Meter

18

0 - Volts

0

20

Knock

19

0 - Volts

0

5

Duty Cycle

20

0 - Positive

0

100

1 - Negative

0

100

Fuel Efficiency

21

0 - MPG

0

100

1 - KM/L

0.43

42.51

2 - L=100KM

Analog Voltage

22

0 - Volts

0

5

Speed (Hertz)

23

0 - Hz

0

10,230

Wideband AFR Status

24

0 - Heating, Ready

0

1

Wideband AFR Health

25

0 - Percent

0

101

Wideband AFR Reaction

26

0 - ms

0

999

In high performance applications where the speed, accuracy and resolution of standard vehicle sensors may not be sufficient for applications which require precise tuning and diagnostics, the iMFD adapter gives you the added option of obtaining aftermarket sensor data. Our wideband AFR, exhaust gas temperature, and vac/boost sensor modules are the most popular add-on sensors for performance vehicles. Anything with an "iMFD" badge is compatible with each other allowing you to daisy chain up to 16 modules in any combination.

The added benefit of the iMFD Adapter is that with every additional iMFD sensor module you add, your performance does not degrade. For example, if you're monitoring only 1 sensor from the OBDII port and your refresh rate is 5Hz, by monitoring 2 sensors, your refresh drops to 2.5Hz and so on. By adding 1 to 16 iMFD sensors, your refresh rate is always kept constant at 10Hz. This results in higher performance monitoring for even the most demanding applications.

PLX Presents the New Kiwi 2 Wifi

The Ultimate Car to Smartphone Interface for Apple Products

SUNNYVALE, CA July 5, 2012. PLX Devices Inc. presents the new Kiwi 2 Wifi. The ultimate car to smartphone interface is compatible with iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad. The Kiwi 2 Wifi integrates with 1996 and later vehicles and installs in seconds. Connection is made through the vehicle's OBDII/CAN port located near or under the steering wheel. Interfacing with a vehicle's on board computer allows for monitoring fuel efficiency MPG, viewing real-time gauges, read/resetting engine check trouble codes and much more. The new Kiwi 2 Wifi will retail for just $119.99.

"The new Kiwi 2 Wifi sports tons of improvements," said Paul Lowchareonkul, PLX's CEO. "It's thinner, more affordable, automatically sleeps to prolong battery life and is compatible with aftermarket sensors with the iMFD Adapter accessory. It's a must have tool for any automotive enthusiast."

The Kiwi 2 Wifi includes several improvements over the first generation Kiwi Wifi. It now comes with a sleek new design and is 0.25 inches thinner. The cable length has been reduced from 6 feet to 3 feet, making for a cleaner permanent installation. It is compatible with ISO 9141, VPW, PWM, KWP2000, and CAN protocols.

The Kiwi 2 Wifi incorporates a new advanced power saving circuit, designed to shut off power to essential functions of the unit allowing the Kiwi 2 Wifi to be permanently installed in a vehicle without draining the vehicle's battery. After 5 minutes of inactivity, the Kiwi 2 Wifi automatically enters a low power sleep mode. To turn the unit back on, a simple press of the soft button wakes the device back up.

The Kiwi 2 Wifi includes an 8 pin port on the back designed for the PLX iMFD Adapter. This allows a connection to high performance aftermarket sensors such as wideband air/fuel ratio, exhaust gas temperature, vacuum/boost, air intake temperature, fluid pressure and fluid temperature. This solution is desired for applications where vehicles do not support certain sensors and/or the car's computer does not report them. With the PLX iMFD Adapter attached, the best of both worlds of fully plug and play OBDII/CAN data as well as high performance aftermarket sensors can be obtained.

PLX Devices Inc. pioneered the Car to Smartphone revolution with the first generation Kiwi Wifi in 2010, winning a SEMA award for Best Mobile Electronics Accessory, Popular Mechanics Editors Choice Award and 11 global media awards. PLX is committed to excellence and innovation in the automotive aftermarket industry. A Silicon Valley California Company, PLX Devices Bringing the Future. Visit www.plxdevices.com

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Overview

The PLX Kiwi Wifi is an OBD-II to IEEE 802.11 wireless Ethernet adapter.
The PLX Kiwi Bluetooth is an OBD-II to Bluetooth adapter.

The Kiwi iMFD Adapter is an addon adapter for the Kiwi 2 Wifi that offers iMFD serial data support in addition to available OBD-II information.

Products

Kiwi 2 Wifi

Kiwi 2 Bluetooth

iMFD Adapter

Block Diagram

The Kiwi 2 Wifi and Kiwi Bluetooth are equivalent in functionality. Both the Kiwi 2 Wifi and Kiwi Bluetooth have a built-in OBD interface. For additional PLX iMFD sensor support, the iMFD adapter can be connected to the Kiwi 2 Wifi and programmatically accessed via an internal mode selector switch.

Kiwi 2 Wifi/Kiwi Bluetooth

Kiwi 2 Wifi with iMFD Adapter

Connecting to Kiwi

To communicate with the Kiwi Wifi, connect to the following IP address and port:

SSID: PLXDevices
IP: 192.168.0.10:35000

For the Kiwi Bluetooth, pair to the device with the following pairing code:

Device Name: PLXDevices-XXXX
Pairing Code: 1234

Setting Sensor Mode (iMFD Adapter)

With the iMFD Adapter connected, there are two modes of operation: OBD mode and iMFD mode. In OBD mode you have access and control of the OBD interface. In iMFD mode, you have access to the PLX iMFD serial stream. These modes can be switched by sending a '+' or '-' ASCII character.

OBD Mode

Send the ASCII character '+' (Decimal value = 43, Hex value = 2B) to set the mode to OBD.

iMFD Mode

Send the ASCII character '-' (Decimal value = 45, Hex value = 2D) to set the mode to iMFD.

Communicating with Kiwi

Communicating with the Kiwi Wifi is made by writing and reading ASCII values to and from the TCP stack.

Communicating with the Kiwi Bluetooth is made by reading and writing ASCII values via a serial stream.

Request Formats

OBD Mode

To signify that the Kiwi Wifi or Kiwi Bluetooth is ready to process commands, the device will output a greater-than sign (>).
The Kiwi Wifi and Kiwi Bluetooth supports ten diagnostic modes as defined in the SAE J1979 standard:

Test mode

Description

01

Show current data

02

Show freeze frame data

03

Show diagnostic trouble codes

04

Clear trouble codes and stored values

05

Test results, oxygen sensors

06

Test results, non-continuously monitored

07

Show 'pending' trouble codes

08

Special control mode

09

Request vehicle information

0A

Request permanent trouble codes

Requesting information can be done by sending a command in this format (ASCII characters):

MM PP\r

where MM is the test mode, PP is the PID, and \r is a carriage return (hex: 0x0d). All whitespace characters are ignored by the Kiwi. *Test modes 03 and 04 do not require a PID value.
For example, requesting current RPM is done as follows:

01 0C\r

The PID response from the Kiwi Wifi or Kiwi Bluetooth is in this format:

NN PP AA [BB] [...]

where the NN represents the test mode + 40 (e.g. 01 + 40 = 41). PP is the requested PID, and all following characters are data bytes.

The number of returned bytes is dependent on the particular PID requested. For details on PIDs supported by most vehicles and the number of returned bytes, please see "Requesting Data".

Here is an example response from the Kiwi Wifi after requesting the current RPM:

41 0C FF FF

The data bytes "FF FF" are ASCII representations of hexadecimal characters for the data. In this case, the "FF FF" would be interpreted as the hexadecimal value of 0xFFFF (65536 in decimal base). An example function for converting this value to meaningful data is outlined in Section 11.

Other responses are possible as well. A table of responses can be seen below:

Response

Description

?

Command not understood

BUFFER FULL

Internal buffer full

BUS ERROR

Invalid singal detected on bus

CAN ERROR

Unable to initialize, send or receive CAN data

DATA ERROR

Incorrect or invalid response from vehicle

NO DATA

No data response for request

OK

Command successful

SEARCHING...

Connecting to vehicle

UNABLE TO CONNECT

No valid OBD protocol found

iMFD Mode

Switching the Kiwi to iMFD mode will automatically read the serial data from any attached sensor modules. The data packet format for the iMFD serial stream is formatted as below:

The 6 least significant bits are reserved for Address, Instance, and Data. This means that the two most significant bits MUST BE ZERO for these bytes. To interpret the Sensor Address and Data Value a bitwise conversion must be done.

When iMFD mode is active, the Kiwi automatically incorporates a flow control to improve performance when writing applications for the iPhone or iPod touch. When the '-' character is sent, the hardware waits for the start bit to arrive and only passes one complete frame. It then waits indefinitely. A '+' followed by a carriage return is necessary to get back to OBD Mode.

Start bit
...
Stop bit
(waits indefinitely)
(send a '+' then carriage return then '-' to obtain the next frame)

*It is recommended that you send a carriage return (\r) character to obtain the '>' character in order for the "OBD mode" to be ready for its next command.

The flow control guarantees that the first iMFD byte that is transmitted back is a start bit and the last byte is a stop bit. One complete iMFD frame will be available each time the iMFD mode is activated.